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Top 10 Colleges in the Philadelphia Area

The University of Pennsylvania tops the list of the best schools in and around Philadelphia in the WSJ/THE College Rankings

December 15, 2016

Top-ranked schools in the Philadelphia area include an Ivy League university and several of the nation’s highly ranked small, liberal-arts institutions.

The University of Pennsylvania, which is No. 4 overall in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, is the highest-ranked school in Philadelphia and nearby towns. The Ivy League institution, which has an undergraduate enrollment of roughly 12,500, ranks in the...